My Little Portal

by Daylight Shadows


Chapter 2: The New Test Subject

Twilight opened her eyes. She felt completely different, like Rarity had just given her a makeover. She looked down at her legs, which were longer and she had feet instead of hooves. She realized she’d become human. She was tall and slender with milky peach skin, wearing a purple turtleneck, a dark skirt, with purple and pink striped socks running up to her knees and dark violet Mary Jane’s. Her hair was exactly like her mane, her lavender horn still present. Her wings evolved into a wing pattern tattoo on her back.

She smiled, and let out a little laugh. ‘This should be interesting,’ she thought as she studied the room around her. It was a chamber to house test subjects. A toilet sat behind her. A radio and a cup of coffee were waiting for her on top of a small table. She looked underneath the table to find some high-falling boots. She pulled out the orange jumpsuit and stripped to her underwear. After getting into the jumpsuit, she removed her shoes and socks and stuck her feet in the boots. She looked at the coffee and picked it up. She took only a sip before spitting it out, realizing it was cold. She accidently dropped the mug on the floor, shattering ceramic pieces and on the clean tile. She picked them up and rested them on the table, shortly afterwards mopping the tile with her sleeve. Twilight went ahead and used the toilet, realizing she forgot to go before she left Equestria.

GLaDOS finally made her appearance online-“Good morning, Twilight Sparkle. Welcome to the Aperture Science Center. I hope you are prepared to start testing.” Twilight looked around for any pony, but only found a camera staring at her. GLaDOS let out a gentle laugh. “Yes, I see you. No, I don’t care if you see me. What matters is we focus here on science. Please step through the portal and we can start your testing.” Twilight stepped through the portal that shot out of nowhere and made her way into the first test chamber. The chamber was empty with just a button and a cube. “I will not tell you how to solve these puzzles, because I think they are too easy for you. If you think you are really that smart, then try solving this puzzle without the Aperture Science weighted cube. OR better yet, try solving this puzzle backwards. Good luck, and may friendship be with you.” GLaDOS’ voice rang out through the entire chamber.

Twilight finished the test chamber in the time Rainbow Dash would’ve declared, “Ten seconds flat.” She walked through the Emancipation Grid and into the elevator, prepared for GLaDOS to attempt to grill her with insults. “Impressive. You really did come through that time. Maybe friendship is really beneficial in testing after all. We’ll see in the next chamber. You will now receive your portal device because I feel ‘generous’.”

Twilight stepped out of the elevator and found herself in a large white room with a full portal device dead center. She made her way over to it and tried it out. After several minutes of goofing off with it, she focused on the puzzle at hand. She looked up and found a cube sitting on a small platform surrounded by white walls. On the other side of the room was the big red button next to the exit that was up a high ledge.

Twilight fired the blue portal up next to the cube. She placed the orange portal right next to her and walked right through. She then picked up the cube and jumped off the platform. Her high fall boots prevented her from breaking her legs or back. She portal-ed over to the big red button and placed the cube on it. The door immediately opened. “Well done, Miss Sparkle. You’ve really outdone yourself. You cannot seem to help but do more than your best. Yes, I’ve read your file. Hmmm…how odd. You have had no friends before, now you have more than plenty. Who says you might ever see your friends again? Then you’ll be all alone…”